Building an interaction for users to filter for customized resources in Storyline?

Hi MChang,

The filtering idea is cool.

The question you might need to ask is do you want to filter by "either-or" or by "both-and". In other words, do you want some things to be excluded when the user makes a choice, or do you want anything and everything to possibly be included.

You could program Storyline to do an "either-or" scenario and use radio buttons. This will allow one button to be turned off when another one is selected. With this scenario, the triggers would change the state of items to either "hidden" or "normal" depending on which radio button is selected.

You could program Storyline to do a "both-and" scenario and use check boxes. This will allow multiple check boxes to be selected. With this scenario, you might want to do things in reverse, such as reducing the transparency of the items so that they are visible but deselected. Set the deselected state as the default state. Then, set up triggers so that when users select a check box, related items turn to the normal state. The check boxes will allow multiple choices to be made. Or, instead of deselecting the items you could make them hidden instead. It depends on if you want the choices visible or not before the selection is made. 

These may not be identical to the websites you referenced, but it really may achieve the same thing, which is filtering onscreen items based on user selection.

You can see an attached example using shapes.